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Houston-based artist Trenton Doyle Hancock speaks about the developing themes in his artwork including a major shift in narrative to autobiographical subject matter and his continued use of adapted personalities.

Seeking to ground herself and get back in to the studio after a great loss, Brooklyn-based artist Nene Humphrey found Victorian mourning braiding the same way most Americans do when looking for help: Google. The pattern similarities to her previous work – drawings from neuroscience lab slides – were uncanny and surprising. Humphrey expands on her journey with Kemper Museum Curator and Head of Adult Programs, Erin Dziedzic, discussing her 5 year exploration, collaboration, and the future of her work, Circling the Center.

In this interview, Kemper Museum Curator and Head of Adult Programs, Erin Dziedzic, talks to Dressed Up exhibition artist Hope Gangloff and Susan Inglett, owner of Susan Inglett Gallery. Together they discuss their practices, points of intersection, and the relationship as artist and gallerist.

Not very often does an outside observer get a glimpse into the relationship of an artist and the person who represents them. Inglett first met Gangloff in 2007 and from that point forward it has been a perfect left brain-right brain match according to Inglett.

Recently, Gangloff produced a series of paintings of her friends and people she is most familiar with. The Kemper Museum was fortunate enough to purchase one of those paintings, Vera, now on view in Dressed Up.

To Wisconsin-based multi-media artist Beth Lipman, glass represents life – there is a beginning and an end, there is change, it is fragile, it is precious. For over a decade glass has been the material of choice for Lipman who is considered one of the most compelling conceptual artists working in glass today. Recently Beth Lipman sat down with the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art's Erin Dziedzic, curator and head of adult programs, to discuss two of her works on view in the atrium of the Museum.
Pocket Watch, Book, Skull and Candles (2011) and Still Life with Kudzu (2010) are on view in the atrium at the Kemper Museum.

In her large-scale photographs—each measuring six by eight feet—Laura McPhee says "you feel the past and the present in one place." The exhibition's theme is a look at the landscape and culture of the American West with a special focus on the Sawtooth Valley in central Idaho, a desolate part of the United States. Along with capturing the area's beauty and its permanent and migrant residents, McPhee's images raise issues about the impact of humans on the land and the tensions among ranchers, hunters, environmentalists, and recreationists. Her lush images—made with a large-format camera and printed using traditional photographic methods—envelope and engage viewers in their sheer scale and warmth.

Jim Sajovic sits down with Erin Dziedzic, Curator and Head of Adult Programs.

Jim Sajovic creates large-scale mixed-media works that combine acrylic painting and digital technology. His work The Fire and the Rose (2011) joins the Kemper Museum's collection as a Museum purchase made possible by a gift from J. Scott Francis, Francis Family Foundation Discretionary Fund. A professor at the Kansas City Art Institute , Sajovic joined the college in 1971 and has exhibited his works in solo and group exhibitions throughout the U.S. and Europe.

Matt Rich combines geometric forms to create compositions that are a visual patchwork, reminiscent of Al Held's and Frank Stella's geometric imagery. A native of Boston, Rich is a graduate of Brown University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Before his talk on April 5, Rich took some time to speak with the Museum.

Bo Joseph's works are colorful, richly textured abstractions combined with figurative elements, all of which are silhouettes made with stencils. The Kemper Museum holds two works by Joseph in its permanent collection. Untitled (2005) is a gift of the R. C. Kemper Charitable Trust, and Return to Plato's Cave (2009) is a Museum purchase made possible by a gift from the William T. Kemper Charitable Trust, UMB Bank, n.a. Born in Berkeley, California, in 1969, he earned a BFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1992. His works have been on view in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States.

The Map as Art artist Lordy Rodriguez speaks about his paintings that examine both geographic and cultural borders. Born in the Philippines, the artist has lived
throughout the United States and
is drawn to its shifting
cultural boundaries.

David and Bryan talk with Lauren Park, Museum Educator, School and Family Programs.

Bryan Park discusses his works and the idea that place is more than a location, and Prototype Model Maker David Ellis offers a look into how industrial design models help Garmin utilize form and function in their GPS devices.

Dufresne discusses how her work, The lost fishing village of Diderot, Boucher, and Lorraine or the movie set of pioneer legacy, may be "the ultimate manifestation of the enlightenment and the power of science and technology over the peasantry." Interviewer Lauren Park also enquires about how Dufresne's teaching informs her work and the urgency present.

Above: The lost fishing village of Diderot, Boucher, and Lorraine or the movie set of pioneer legacy (2009), a gift of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York; Hassam, Speicher, Betts, and Symons Funds